During our conversation, Cohen recalled a discussion at Trump Tower, following the then-candidate’s return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle. Cohen had watched the rally on TV and noticed that the crowd was largely caucasian. He offered this observation to his boss. “I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. Trump responded, ‘That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.’” (The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)

This conversation, he noted, was reminiscent of an exchange that the two men had engaged in years earlier, after Nelson Mandela’s death. “He said to me, ‘Name one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole,’ and then he added, ‘Name one city,’” Cohen recalled, a statement that echoed the president’s alleged comments about African nations earlier this year. (White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied those comments at the time. She added that “no one here is going to pretend like the president is always politically correct—he isn’t.” She subsequently noted that it was “one of the reasons the American people love him.”)

Cohen also recounted a conversation he had with Trump in the late 2000s, while they were traveling to Chicago for a Trump International Hotel board meeting. “We were going from the airport to the hotel, and we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood. Trump made a comment to me, saying that only the blacks could live like this.” After the first few seasons of The Apprentice, Cohen recalled how he and Trump were discussing the reality show and past-season winners. The conversation wended its way back to the show’s first season, which ended in a head-to-head between two contestants, Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson. “Trump was explaining his back-and-forth about not picking Jackson,” an African-American investment manager who had graduated from Harvard Business School. “He said, ‘There’s no way I can let this black f-g win.’” (Jackson told me that he had heard that the president made such a comment. “My response to President Trump is simple and Wakandan,” he said, referring to the fictional African country where Black Panther hails from. “‘Not today, colonizer!’”)

I will never understand why people continue to support this guy - unless they feel exactly the same.

cool, as long as you are cool with armed para-military goons doing the same for ....who is it? Kemp?

(Where I live as long as they were 100 feet from an active polling location that would be legal)

I am happy they are demonstrating their RIGHTS and proper trigger discipline... (the photo I posted above was NOT legal as they WERE AT an active voting location and were there to intimidate voters but to no one's surprise the obama DOJ did NOTHING about it)

Anyone for banning the AR15 must be on the side of the criminal as once banned only criminals will have them.

why? because I do not march in lockstep with you and your ilk? Because I think for myself? Not that you do not? I do see many of the issues you bring up I just do not agree with your approach or priorities to such issues. I oppose all groups that use intimidation to get their way. Be it white supremacist or any other group of any other race... I say "forget" them all... ALL OF THEM need to go away.

Between you and I... you are the one less supportive of rights and liberty.

Anyone for banning the AR15 must be on the side of the criminal as once banned only criminals will have them.